The Victorian novel and its readers / Kate Flint -- The business of Victorian publishing / Simon Eliot -- The aesthetics of the Victorian novel : form, subjectivity, ideology / Linda M. Shires -- Industrial culture and the Victorian novel / Joseph W. Childers -- Gender and the Victorian novel / Nancy Armstrong -- Sexuality in the Victorian novel / Jeff Nunokawa -- Race and the Victorian novel / Patrick Brantlinger -- Detection in the Victorian novel / Ronald R. Thomas -- Sensation and the fantastic in the Victorian novel / Lyn Pykett -- Intellectual debate in the Victorian novel : religion, science, and the professional / John Kucich -- Dickens, Melville, and a tale of two countries / Robert Weisbuch.